Latest articles by Andy Chalk
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio bestowed with France's Order of Arts and Letters: 'The Republic affirms: videogames are a major art form and an essential industry'
news Score another one for Sandfall Interactive.
Hideo Kojima pulls out of GDC at the last minute
news Kojima was set to deliver the first GDC keynote in five years, but announced today that he'll be unable to attend.
A great puzzle game for people who like the idea of Blue Prince but don't want to spend days banging their head against it is free for the week on the Epic Store
news Botany Manor is up for grabs on Epic for the first time.
Highguard is adding a new hero who turns into wolf, and a new wolf mount that everyone else can ride around on (but no, they're not the same guy)
news Highguard Episode 2, set to roll out on February 6, is making some big changes.
Sony's co-op Horizon game is real, it's coming to PC day one, and you can sign up for playtests that start this month
news Horizon Hunters Gathering is an all-new take on the series that "stands on its own."
World of Warcraft producer says Chris Metzen sometimes wishes Blizzard hadn't called it Warcraft because 'it sounds intimidating,' and some fans are not taking it well
news It wasn't a serious comment, but some folks are taking it way too seriously.
'We’re not planning on making absolute statements in either direction,' GOG boss says about generative AI, leading supporters to make some absolute statements in one very specific direction: 'Absolutely terrible response'
news An AI generated banner turned up on GOG last week, and efforts to clean up the mess aren't going especially well.
One-third of consumers don't want AI on their devices, report finds, and it's not because they don't understand it: They just don't need it
news The problem with AI isn't that it's not been clearly explained. The problem is, it sucks.
7 years after it was pulled from Steam, Poker Night at the Inventory is coming back in March, and yes, so are the free Team Fortress 2 unlockables
news The surprise remaster is being made by Skunkape, the team behind the updated versions of Telltale's Sam and Max games.
Mike Morhaime's Dreamhaven continues to look for a hit, this time with a 'run-based' spin-off of Sunderfolk without the phone controls
news Shadowstone is set to launch into early access later this year.
MindsEye was one of the most catastrophic game launches of 2025 but the studio refuses to quit: Its 'most significant post-launch update' is now live and an expansion is coming later this year
news None of this makes sense to me, but it's sure interesting to watch.
'We're actively embracing generative AI,' Take-Two boss says, after previously expressing skepticism: 'We have hundreds of pilots and implementations across our company'
news CEO Strauss Zelnick says generative AI remains a tool for enabling creators to do bigger and better things, but it sounds like a shift away from past comments.
Grand Theft Auto 6 'launch marketing' will begin this summer as the November release date remains on track
news For consoles, at least. For PC? Well, no.
Eric Barone says he'd 'love to' make Stardew Valley 2 someday: 'A whole new set of characters, a whole new world, maybe capture some of that original energy that I had back in 2012'
news Maybe someday?
MindsEye studio boss threatens legal action against YouTuber as co-CEO Leslie Benzies denies Epstein allegations: 'I have never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor have I ever visited his island'
news The "cease and desist" demand was posted to the MindsEye Discord just minutes after Cyber Boi's video went live.
The Epic Games Store had a record-breaking 2025, with gamers throwing $1.16 billion at the 6,000-plus games it now offers
news You also sent more than 100,000 gifts on the Epic store, which seems pretty good for a service that only rolled out in mid-November.
Will Take-Two announce another Grand Theft Auto 6 delay tomorrow?
news The company's first quarterly report of the calendar year drops on February 3, and some GTA fans are getting a little antsy.
Larian publishing chief wades into the fray, says Morrowind updated with a modern combat system 'would sell like f**king hotcakes'
news Cromwelp has entered the chat.
Roblox walks back some of its dramatic changes to avatar faces, but not enough to make everyone happy
A move to a "unified" system for Roblox avatars is not going over well with the community.
Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney voices support for $900 million Steam lawsuit: 'Valve is the only major store still holding onto the payments tie and 30% junk fee'
news Sweeney says Valve's DLC purchase requirements are like "a car dealership demanding 30% of gas purchases."
Nearly one-third of non-US game developers have cancelled plans to travel to the country because of immigration and gender identity policies
news GDC's 2026 State of the Game Industry survey says that number jumps to nearly half among LGBTQ+ devs.
Square Enix says a 'new version' of Final Fantasy 7 is coming to Steam, but doesn't say what's actually new or when it's coming
news It's a bit odd, yeah?
Mighty No. 9 studio Comcept, which somehow still existed, is now officially dead and buried
news Keiji Inafune founded Comcept in 2010, and it was pretty much all downhill from there.
